The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26

typhoid fever since going to Minneapolis,
Mimi, but is again better, and the doctor
now has his shingle out as practitioner
there. - Mrs. DIR. G.. w. McClearn is
yet good deal of an invalid, with perhaps
little hope of recovery here. - Miss
Amy Gale Of Barre was the guest, last
week, of her friend Miss Gertie Barnes.
Miss Gale, in company with Miss Alice
Blanchard and another lady, Is about to go
to one of the Bermuda Islands, where they
are to have employment and remain till
warm weather. == James s. Tileston,
son-in-law of the late Darius Pride, Esq,
and now of Faribault, Iowa, is again com
PEELED by iniirm health to go South for the
winter. He finds Georgia. Iavorite locality
and will be in, or near, Atlanta 60 Ma
ior FIJI is again in poor health and naturally
breads what may be ahead, after his last
winters experience with sickness. -
| A roadside sermon on work, that has been
| forced upon our attention of late, is the saw
| ing up of his pile of four-feet wood, by a
resident of a neighborng town, who carries
more than three score and ten years on his
| shoulders, and thousands of dollars in his
| pocket-book. There's hint there that we
gladly-pass on, of course. 80 To seek for
| the secret of a successful mans success is
something like the boys cutting into the
| bellows to find where the wind came from.
But meeting the other day well known,
intelligent and very successful farmer of
| neighboring county, we ventured asking
|
Vermont farmer. His cheerful, prompt
answer was. Staying at home and doing
his own work, making an honest article and
getting good price for it," A man nearly
or quite sixty years of age, in the last year,
from small farm of fifty acres, and the
rent of a larger one, with some work done
for others, he has supported family at no
small expense and expended and given
away $500 more, all from his income.
" But" said he, stretching forth his arm,
-, Il
or six years ago, and outside is my sleigh,
which | have rode in for thirty-fve years"
He assured us that if he were twenty-five
years younger he should not hesitate to take
any farm about here and 60 into debt for
every dollar of it, expecting TO pay it ont of
the farm. GO Our worthy townsnan
James p. Bass has taken up" government
land in Messy Rock, Lewis county, Wash
ington Territory. He is not far from his
! fellow-townsman, Albert Pierce, who went
| from here not many years ago. - The
| Universaist society will hold "A sociable at
the town hall next week Tuesday evening
80 Perkins Bass and family have re-
turned to Chicago, ILL.,, after an absence of
a year or two in Europe. - We have
just learned of the death, on January II, of
Mr.. Elijah Carter of Rock Island H.. aged
siXty-three years. From the DdHY Union of
Rock Island we clip the following: " He
was born in Williamstown, VT, afterward
living in Michigan City, Ind, and Boston,
Mass. In lol9 he went 70 CallfOrnla ana re-
manned there till 1854. A year later he came
to Rock Island and was the head of the dry
goods firm of Carter & Hatch till 1862, since
when he has filed the positions of deputy
collector of internal revenue and United
States gauger, with the exception of year
or two, when he conducted the office at the
glass works. 1t was at this time, 1912,
that he was elected mayor of Rock Island.
He was an honest, straightforward, gener-
Gus man and will be much missed in the
community. - We recall no one of our
townsfolk who has had more to gladden. old
age, in the way of the love and care of chill
dren and material comforts, than our es-
teemed townswoman, Mrs. Joel Bass now
of Chicago. Her friends will be glad TO hear
of her present good health. We hope it may
yet be her good fortune to hear that an era
of great prosperity has come to our place,
with the hoped-for railroad, and that the
Congregational church, which she has SO
often cheered and greatly helped by her
gifts, has come up " out of the wilderness y
and entered upon a career of permanent sue
cess in every good direction. - Arthur
Ralph was called to Warren last week by
the sickness with pneumonia of his youngest
brother Ernest. - On Tuesday the town
by large majority voted to bond to the ex.
, tent of 600 in aid of the extension of the
the railroad from Barre to Williamstown
Messrs. G. L. Lathrop, Marcus A. Smitl
and j. X. Lynde were chosen commits
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